On 12/16/2010 07:53 PM, Tim Harig wrote:
On 2010-12-17, Torsten Mohr<tm...@s.netic.de> wrote:
i search for a possibility to access OpenOffoce SpreadSheets from Python
with a reasonably new version of Python.
Can anybody point me to a package that can do this?
There is no package needed to read or write the new open document files.
The files are merely a jar archive containing XML files. You can open
and update them using jar as a subprocess and manipulate the XML files
using your favorite XML libraries DOM/SAX/XPath/Etree/etc.
To make that even easier (no need for a subprocess launching a
JAR tool), JAR files are just ZIP files (IIRC, they may have some
particularly-named files for metadata purposes, but it's all just
a big zip-blob), so you can use Python's native zipfile module to
crack into it. Then, as TimH suggests, wander around in the XML
(and other files) inside.
-tkc
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